BGP Track Object

[Guilherme Gianotto Bratfisch]

Hello,

Is there any way to create a track object to track the BGP neighbor status ?!

My goal is when the CE router loses its neighborship it will decrement the priority of glbp.

[Peter Paluch · Accepted solution]

Hi Guilherme,

There is not direct support for tracking a specific BGP peer. However, you can use a so-called stub tracking object whose state is set by an EEM script, and use this EEM script to react to logging messages that state that a particular BGP neighbor has gone up or down, and set the stub tracking object state appropriately. Then you can reference this tracking object in your GLBP configuration.

As an example, this would be the configuration for a pair of EEM scripts that check on the particular availability of the BGP peer 10.0.12.2, and set the stub track object accordingly:

track 1 stub-object
 default-state down
!
event manager applet BGP-Neigh-Down
 event syslog pattern "%BGP-5-ADJCHANGE: neighbor 10.0.12.2 Down"
 action 1.0 track set 1 state down
!
event manager applet BGP-Neigh-Up
 event syslog pattern "%BGP-5-ADJCHANGE: neighbor 10.0.12.2 Up"
 action 1.0 track set 1 state up

Feel free to adapt the IP address of the peer, names of the scripts and the track object number to your specific needs.

Best regards,
Peter